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Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. Halloween Spooktacular The City of Wilton Manors Leisure Services Department This Halloween event will include a costume contest, games, bounce houses, a giant cake walk, sweets booth, a hayride, goody bags, concession, and families can bring their cameras for pictures with the Great Pumpkin. Free. 2401 NE 3rd Ave., Wilton Manors. 954-390-2130 or www.wiltonmanors.com. Oct. 24 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. Spirits of Fort Lauderdale: Halloween at the Historic Stranahan House Museum Historic Stranahan House Museum Embark on a journey with spirits, legends and Halloween fun. Guests will travel back in time to experience a Victorian home funeral and burial, and meet some of the...

Time to bid farewell to a familiar fixture in downtown Hollywood.
For 36 years, the 12-story Town House Apartments has occupied the north side of Young Circle.
No more.
The building at 1776 Polk St. was demolished Saturday to make way for what many are...

How low can some people go?
Lower than you thought.
Jeremy Wayne Manieri, 31, was on his way to Disney World with his ex-wife and their two children when he was nabbed Tuesday by Polk County sheriff's deputies a motel near Davenport, reports The...

Gainesville police say twenty-one-year-old Tiffany Ruby Mae Long was babysitting at a home on Tuesday when the 10-month-old baby's mother came home early and saw Long smothering her with a pillow in a crib, reports The Gainesville Sun. The baby's legs...

The Internal Revenue Service will open three Taxpayer Assistance Centers in South Florida on Saturday to answer questions and resolve issues, particularly about controversial liens slapped on delinquent taxpayers' property.The IRS will be open from 9 a.m....

When you think of big trees, you may not think first of Florida. But the state is home to more national champion trees than any other state.Of the 751 species of tree with national champions – the largest confirmed individual of the species – 106 are in...

Fort Pierce cops got a call on the Fourth of July about a man who seemed very drunk in an old pickup truck trying to buy dope, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com.
The caller referred to him as a "fat (buttocks)...

When the Sun Belt holds its football media days Monday and Tuesday, three coaches will be making their first appearance.
Two others will be making their second, as the nine-team conference has seen five coaching changes in the last two seasons.
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A Tampa-area woman admitted Monday that in November, at nearly 2 a.m., she fired off an email to a conservative radio talk show host that led to a countywide lockdown of the Broward schools, an investigation by the FBI's domestic terrorism unit and,...

Hurricane Rina’s projected path has shifted north, now putting all of South Florida in the cone of uncertainty.
At the same time, the system is expected to downgrade into a tropical storm by Saturday while near western Cuba, the result of wind shear...

Spring is here, and you want something new to wake up your taste buds and impress friends, but you want to do it with a dish that's easy to make.
For just such a recipe, we turn to the new chef in town: executive chef Christian Clair at The Ritz-Carlton,...

Owners of single-room-occupancy hotels in Chicago will not be able to so easily evict residents and convert their properties to market-rate apartments, under an ordinance approved Wednesday by the Chicago City Council.By a vote of 47-2, aldermen...

Terrell Manning laughs. It's the best way, he has found, to dull the dizziness of his NFL life — a nomadic and tornadic existence that whips him from week to week with nothing set in stone.
Take last weekend, when the Bears linebacker, then on the...

Evelyn Echols was best known as a successful entrepreneur and a founder of the Echols International Travel & Hotel School, but she was also a grand dame of Chicago society who used her entrepreneurial skills and celebrity connections to help...

Nothing sells hope to fans of all 32 teams like the NFL draft, and next year the league will bring that hope — and all the accompanying hoopla — to Chicago.
The draft, which for the last nine years has been conducted in New York's Radio City Music...

The body of a Chicago woman who was allegedly bludgeoned to death and stuffed in a suitcase at a resort hotel in Bali is expected to be sent back to the U.S. to be examined by the FBI.
Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body was found stuffed in a hard-sided...